In Brainiac, chapter 10, question 10 says "... which Brady Bunch cast member was written out of the show's very last episode." The answer given is "Robert Reed's father character, Mike Brady, was written out of The Brady Bunch's very last episode." Since the question asks for a cast member, Robert Reed should be the boldface answer instead of Mike Brady, the character he played.

The Baltimore Ravens franchise is, according to the NFL, an expansion team who started play in 1996. Part of the deal Art Modell made with the league in order to set up operations in Baltimore was that the city of Cleveland would retain the team's name, colors, and history. Although the Ravens pretty much had the same players and staff in their inaugural season as the Browns did in 1995, they are technically two different teams.

There is a reference to Schecter v. United States and a quote attributed to Justice Holmes. Both are in error. First, the case referenced is Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), not Schecter. Second, the referenced contains a glaring omission. Justice Holmes did not say that shouting fire in a crowded theater was not protected speech. He wrote, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." Omitting "falsely" changes the meaning of the phrase completely.

Crap, I always do that with Schenck and Schecter! But if you've heard the "shouting fire in a crowded theater" example, you probably understand the implied "falsely." Obviously, if the theater's really on fire, that wouldn't really be illegal speech. It would be helpful speech.

Cool about the sunlight thing. I guess I should have assumed there'd be differences based on orbital position, but I didn't know the swing was that wide.

I will begin this post by saying I am an obsessive Harry Potter fan. That said, excuse me if you see this as trivially trivial.

In your Trivia Almanac, on page 443, you mistakenly give the answer to page 431's BEST(IARY) SELLERS question 2 (Crookshanks) as a "Cat". Technically, Crookshanks is half-Cat, half-Kneazle, one of J.K. Rowling's ficitonal creations. If you proceed to http://www.jkrowling.com/en , then click the hairbrush ("Extra Stuff"), then click the tab on the left of the notebook labeled "Characters", click "Crookshanks", and read the last paragraph, the error I have found is confirmed.

August 17: Flight Club
I'm just curious if it matters spelling Teheran with the "e" or spelling Tehran without the extra letter? Both spellings have millions of hits on Google, so I just wondering if a coin was tossed or some other method was used?

WhoisMark wrote:August 17: Flight ClubI'm just curious if it matters spelling Teheran with the "e" or spelling Tehran without the extra letter? Both spellings have millions of hits on Google, so I just wondering if a coin was tossed or some other method was used?

Likely just an editorial decision. Like Usama/Osama or Qadaffi/Khadafi/Gaddafi/etc...

The question "Why did a September 8, 1967, Variety ad seek '4 insane boys, ages 17–21'?" is slightly incorrect -- The Monkees debuted in 1966. Time says the ad ran in "the summer of 1965"; Snopes says September 8, 1965.

On the May 23 page, Q3, under Iron Horses, the question was "pitchers from what major league baseball team have owned the record for most consecutive scoreless innings since 1962?" That year should be 1968. Don Drysdale set the scoreless inning record (previously held by Walter Johnson), in 1968.

Is it all right to make a correction for November 29th? Because per my three source books, you've mixed up Walter Reed and Ronald Ross in the first question. If you really mean Walter Reed, then the answer is wrong.